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Legal issues in blood banking. Elements of informed consent
1Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
In the past, informed consent in pathology was confined chiefly to autopsies. Changes in both consent law and pathology practice led to consent being important in a broader sense in the laboratory. Areas discussed in this article include blood transfusion, tissue specimens, fine needle aspiration, and phlebotomy.